Sparassidae  Bertkau, 1872 / Eusparassus  Simon, 1903   10 species

Eusparassus walckenaeri  (Audouin, 1826)

Description

Prosoma dark brown to orange-brown. Cheliceral furrow with intermarginal denticles. Legs with distinct darker bands. Opisthosoma: dorsum with a series of small chevron-like patterns, venter without marking.

Body length male: 13.4-20.6 mm
Body length female: 16.9-25.3 mm
Additional information

in semi-dry areas under flat stones, trogloxene (Greece)

Distribution
  Presence
  Not established
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Greece, Turkey, Algeria to Iraq, Sudan
Phenology
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Distribution List

"No references" does not mean that the species does not occur in this country, but that we have not yet inserted the reference for it. We are working on it.

Algeria   (Moradmand, 2013; Benhacene et al., 2023) ||| Cyprus   (Bosmans et al., 2019c) ||| Egypt   (Moradmand, 2013; Levy, 1989) ||| Germany   (Kielhorn, 2021) ||| Greece   (Bosmans & Chatzaki, 2005) ||| Greece / Crete   (Bosmans et al., 2013; Moradmand & Jäger, 2012) ||| Italy  Removed (Moradmand & Jäger, 2012) ||| Libya   (Moradmand, 2013) ||| Netherlands   (van Helsdingen, 2015b) ||| Tunisia   (Moradmand, 2013) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2024a; Moradmand, 2013) ||| Turkey (Europe)   (Demircan & Topçu, 2016) |||
References

Benhacene R, Adjami A, Hadjeb A, Kermiche K, Ouakid M L (2023) Bibliographic checklist of the Algerian spider fauna (Araneae). Zootaxa 5352: 301-357 pdf

Bosmans R, Chatzaki M (2005) A catalogue of the spiders of Greece – a critical review of all spider species cited from Greece with their localities. Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische arachnologische Vereniging 20 (2, suppl.): 1-124 pdf

Bosmans R, Van Keer J, Russell-Smith A, Hadjiconstantis M, Komnenov M, Bosselaers J, Huber S, McCowan D, Snazell R, Decae A, Zoumides C, Kielhorn K-H, Oger P (2019c) Spiders of Cyprus (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from Cyprus. Newsletter of the Belgian Arachnological Society 34, Suppl. 1: 1-173 pdf

Bosmans R, Van Keer J, Russell-Smith A, Kronestedt T, Alderweireldt M, Bosselaers J, De Koninck H (2013) Spiders of Crete (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from the Greek island of Crete. Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 28 (Suppl. 1): 1-147 pdf

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2024a) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2024 [last updated 01 January 2024], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info pdf

Demircan N, Topçu A (2016) First records for spider fauna of the European part of Turkey (Araneae). Serket 15: 85-91 pdf

Helsdingen P J van (2015b) Binnenwandelende exoten. Nieuwsbrief SPINED 35: 33-34 pdf

Kielhorn K-H (2021) Bemerkenswerte Spinnenfunde aus Brandenburg und Berlin (Arachnida: Araneae). Märkische Entomologische Nachrichten 23: 229-248

Levy G (1989) The family of huntsman spiders in Israel with annotations on species of the Middle East (Araneae: Sparassidae). Journal of Zoology, London 217: 127-176 pdf

Moradmand M (2013) The stone huntsman spider genus Eusparassus (Araneae: Sparassidae): systematics and zoogeography with revision of the African and Arabian species. Zootaxa 3675: 1-108 pdf

Moradmand M, Jäger P (2012) Taxonomic revision of the huntsman spider genus Eusparassus Simon, 1903 (Araneae: Sparassidae) in Eurasia. Journal of Natural History 46: 2439-2496 pdf

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.01.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

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